Latest Materials research Podcast Episodes
Episode 12: New paradigm established for additive manufacturing in field of bioelectronics
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - April 20, 2024 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Antonio Dominguez-Alfaro from the University of Cambridge, UK about the development of a single-step manufacturing approach for a multimaterial 3D-printing method. The research team created two inks. One ink is a polymeric deep eutect...
Episode 11: Chemomechanical approach to surface modification attains high single-photon purity
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - April 09, 2024 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Elizabeth Wilson interviews postdoctoral researcher M. Iqbal Bakti Utama of Northwestern University about a method allowing single photon production without defect. Aryl diazonium chemistry has been used in the past to functionalize the surface of carbon n...
Episode 10: Achiral liquid crystal breaks mirror symmetry
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - April 04, 2024 19:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Irmgard Bischofberger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about her investigation of how chirality emerges in nature. She uses liquid crystal molecules of disodium chromoglycate in her studies. When the molecules are dissolv...
Episode 9: Nanocomposite-superlattice enables low energy, high stability phase-change memory device
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - March 26, 2024 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Eric Pop, Xiangjin Wu, and Asir Intisar Khan from Stanford University about their work building a phase-change memory superlattice at the nanoscale. They created the superlattice by alternating layers of antimony-tellurium nanocluster...
Episode 8: Switching mechanism revealed behind reversible molecular assembly in 2D materials
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - March 20, 2024 19:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Magalí Lingenfelder from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland about her group’s discovery of the switching mechanism behind H-bond-linked two-dimensional networks. The hydrogen bonding ability was tuned by compari...
Episode 7: RoboMapper reduces environmental impact of data generation
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - March 11, 2024 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Aram Amassian from North Carolina State University about his group’s achievements using RoboMapper, a materials acceleration platform. In researchers’ quest to run environmentally-conscious laboratories, Amassian offers a solution tha...
Episode 6: Superconductor robust against magnetic field
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - March 05, 2024 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Kaveh Ahadi from The Ohio State University about a material his group developed that maintains superconductivity in a magnetic field. The researchers grew a film of lanthanum manganite on a crystal of potassium tantalate. When lowere...
Episode 5: Theoretical framework predicts real-world industrial catalytic conditions
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - February 27, 2024 16:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Elizabeth Wilson interviews Manos Mavrikakis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison about his group’s theoretical work on real-world industrial catalytic conditions. It is often assumed that most catalyst surface atoms stay in place during a reaction, fi...
Episode 4: Imaging device tracks and controls photocurrent streamlines in electronic devices
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - February 15, 2024 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Nathan Gabor from the University of California, Riverside about his group’s work on imaging and directing the flow of electrons in electronic devices. They designed their device by taking a crystal of yttrium iron garnet, which does ...
Episode 3: Quantum ruler measures orbital magnetism in moiré quantum matter
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - February 06, 2024 16:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Rahul Rao interviews Fereshte Ghahari of George Mason University about the use of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to measure the electronic and magnetic properties of moiré quantum materials. Ghahari and collaborators twisted two layers of graphene a...
Episode 2: Biocompatible piezoelectric materials promote neural regeneration
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - January 31, 2024 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Hamideh Khanbareh and Vlad Jarkov of the University of Bath in the UK about an application they introduced for using piezoelectric materials in tissue engineering. The researchers fabricated a composite by combining polydimethylsiloxa...
Episode 1: Photochemistry combined with 3D printing generates complex ceramics structures
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - January 24, 2024 21:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Professor Jerry Qi and postdoctoral researcher Mingzhe Li of the Georgia Institute of Technology about their new technique to 3D print silica glass. After using two-photon polymerization to cross-link poly-dimethylsiloxane, Qi’s resea...
Episode 16: Biosensor enables early detection of organ transplant failure
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - December 11, 2023 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Surabhi Madhvapathy of Northwestern University about an implantable bioelectronics system that can perform early detection of kidney transplant rejection in rats. Madhvapathy and her colleagues have developed a wireless sensor that a...
Episode 15: Transonic dislocation propagation observed in diamond
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - December 11, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Kento Katagiri, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, about the propagation speed of dislocations in materials. Using an X-ray free electron laser to collect data from single-crystal diamond, Katagiri and colleagues have dete...
Episode 14: Liquid samples coated in gold nanorods enhance cellular characterization
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - September 18, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Stanford University’s Jennifer Dionne and her PhD student Fareeha Safir and their colleague Amr. Saleh from Cairo University about their work on identifying bacteria in complex samples. Instead of culturing bacteria then identifying t...
Episode 13: Bioprinting combined with interferometry enables precision oncology
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - September 11, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Alice Soragni of the University of California, Los Angeles about her work in precision oncology. Rather than sequence the DNA of a patient’s tumor, Soragni uses bioprinting to create organoids from the patient’s cells. She then adds ...
Episode 12: Hydrogel adsorbs more water at elevated temperature
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - September 05, 2023 14:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhile thermodynamics suggests that water sorption is more favorable at a low temperature, MRS Bulletin podcaster Laura Leay interviews post-doctoral researcher Xinyue Liu from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who reports a hydrogel that can adsorb more water at elevated temperatur...
Episode 11: Introduction of hydrogen produces eco-friendly thermoelectric oxides
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - August 14, 2023 14:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMany industrial processes require heat or create it as a by-product. Now, Takayoshi Katase from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has found a way to harness this heat in an eco-friendly way, as he explains in an interview with MRS Bulletin podcaster Laura Leay. One way to harness this heat is to...
Episode 10: Photonic time crystal amplifies electromagnetic signal
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - August 08, 2023 18:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Xuchen Wang of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany about his work on photonic time crystals. While conventional crystals are composed of repeating unit cells in space, such as eight carbon atoms arranged in a cube to form a ...
Episode 9: Magnetic properties tunable in high-entropy oxides
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - August 01, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLittle research has been done on the magnetic properties of high-entropy oxides, a challenge taken up by Alannah Hallas at the University of British Columbia in Canada, interviewed by MRS Bulletin podcaster Laura Leay. Hallas’s research group began by choosing five elements that would be magneti...
Knots tied within microstructure of foam
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - July 17, 2023 20:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Widi Moestopo, a former graduate student in Julia Greer’s laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and now a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about their work incorporating microknots in archite...
Episode 8: Knots tied within microstructure of foam
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - July 17, 2023 20:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Widi Moestopo, a former graduate student in Julia Greer’s laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and now a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about their work incorporating microknots in archite...
Episode 7: Nanotwinned copper foil enables “zero excess” Li-metal batteries
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - July 11, 2023 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Dominic Bresser from the Helmholtz Institute Ulm and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany about the suitability of a nanotwinned copper foil as a current collector for the negative electrode in“zero excess” lithium−metal b...
Nanotwinned copper foil enables “zero excess” Li-metal batteries
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - July 11, 2023 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Dominic Bresser from the Helmholtz Institute Ulm and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany about the suitability of a nanotwinned copper foil as a current collector for the negative electrode in“zero excess” lithium−metal b...
Electromagnetic induction enables micro-robots to better mimic biological organisms
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - June 05, 2023 13:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Carmel Majidi from Carnegie Mellon University about an adaptive-responsive soft micro-robot. The key is eliciting a liquid–solid phase transition through electromagnetic induction. In addition to using the magnetic field to induce the...
Episode 6: Electromagnetic induction enables micro-robots to better mimic biological organisms
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - June 05, 2023 13:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Carmel Majidi from Carnegie Mellon University about an adaptive-responsive soft micro-robot. The key is eliciting a liquid–solid phase transition through electromagnetic induction. In addition to using the magnetic field to induce the...
Episode 5: Inkjet-printed material tailored for biocompatible wearable electronics
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - March 21, 2023 14:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Prof. Esma Ismailova and graduate student Marina Galliani from Mines Saint-Etienne about their work toward creating biocompatible, eco-friendly materials for wearable electronics. For this particular project, they developed a conduct...
Episode 4: Optical waveguide enables self-healing soft robotic system
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - March 21, 2023 13:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Rob Shepherd from Cornell University about an adaptive-responsive self-healing soft robotic system. Shepherd’s research team has developed waveguides made of self-healing polyurethane urea crosslinked with aromatic sulfide bonds. When...
Episode 3: Gold nanoparticles self-assemble into pinwheel superlattices
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - February 06, 2023 14:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Jiahui Li, a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about designing structures out of gold nanoparticles. When the nanoparticle structure takes the shape of a pinwheel, different types of light interact with ...
Episode 2: Software developed for 3D imaging using electron microscope
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast - February 01, 2023 12:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Robert Hovden from the University of Michigan and his graduate student Jonathan Schwartz on development of the freely available tomviz platform (tomviz.org) that enables real-time three-dimensional (3D) visual analysis of materials. B...
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